Books and Reading Marie Levínská
Books Literary types – Epic, Lyric and Drama Literary forms – Prose, Poetry and Drama Poetry Aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language Verse Epic, sonnet
Prose Ordinary syntax and natural speech Novel, novella, short story Drama For performance Dialogue Tragedy, comedy
British literature timeline Old literature Renaissance William Shakespeare World‘s greatest playwright Historical plays Richard III Comedies A Midsummer Night‘s dream The Taming of the Shrew The Marry Wives of Windsor Tragedies Romeo and Juliet Hamlet Othello Macbeth King Lear Sonnets Influence on English language Beowulf Legendary hero, king Epic Unknown writer 8th century
18th century Romantic Literature Jonathan Swift Mary Shelley Gulliver‘s Travels Satire on British society Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe One of the most popular books for children Mary Shelley Frankenstein Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield park Emma Charlotte Brönte Jane Eyre Emily Brönte Wuthering Heights
19th century George Orwell Thomas Hardy Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four Thomas Hardy Tess of the D‘Ubervilles Far from the Madding Crowd Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Great Expectations Little Dorrite Oscar Wilde The Importance of being Ernest Picture of Dorian Gray
American writers Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain Ernest Hemingway Father of horror and crime fiction The Fall of the House of Ushers Raven Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea